Due to the unprecedented nature of the Penn State sanctions, the NCAA will provide appropriate and immediate relief of some NCAA rules for all eligible football student-athletes who wish to transfer to another school. Several Division I...
The historically unprecedented actions by the NCAA today are warranted by the conspiracy of silence that was maintained at the highest levels of the university in reckless and callous disregard for the children. There is incredible...
Q. The Paterno family issued a statement yesterday calling the Freeh Report pretty much an indictment, a charging document, not necessarily a verdict. Don't you usually conduct your own investigation, and why did you rely so heavily on the...
Due to the unprecedented nature of the Penn State sanctions, the NCAA will provide appropriate and immediate relief of some NCAA rules for all eligible football student-athletes who wish to transfer to another school. Several Division I...
$60 million fine . The NCAA imposes a $60 million fine, equivalent to the approximate average of one year's gross revenues from the Penn State football program, to be paid over a five-year period beginning in 2012 into an endowment for...
By Greg Johnson The Baseball Rules Committee at its three-day meeting that concluded Wednesday recommended that umpires be allowed to conference and determine whether a call on a batted ball should be changed from foul to fair. If approved...
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), LLC and The Madison Square Garden Company have reached a three-year agreement that will keep the NIT Season Tip-Off and the NIT in New York City...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org Ryan Thacher, 22, carries aspirations that could fill two lives. He plans to cram them all into the one he’s been given. Millions of children around the world grow up dreaming of a professional tennis career –...
By Bobby Lee For NCAA.org Whether the site of competition is Albion College’s Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium or the Detroit Tigers’ Comerica Park, Devin Burnett is used to hitting. A starting free safety for Albion’s football team, Burnett is...
By Gary Brown The adage of death and taxes being the only certainties in life could probably take on a third conviction if it was up to presidents and chancellors – and that is that college students in the main like to drink. At least that...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick The process and timing for both penalizing and determining postseason eligibility of teams who fail to meet academic benchmarks will remain the same, the Committee on Academic Performance decided, using the most...
By Greg Johnson The NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Committee at its annual meeting recommended modifying the way team scores will be compiled in the sport. The proposal calls for each team having five competitors perform routines in each event,...
The NCAA moved within a single step of accepting its first international member when the Division II Membership Committee conditionally approved Simon Fraser University of Burnaby, B.C., as a Division II active member. The action was among...
A total of 429 female student-athletes, spanning NCAA Divisions I, II and III, were nominated for the 22nd annual NCAA Woman of the Year award. The award honors graduating female student-athletes who have distinguished themselves...
Statement by Bob Williams, vice president of communications “Like everyone else, we are reviewing the final report for the first time today. As President Emmert wrote in his November 17 th letter to Penn State President Rodney Erickson and...
The NCAA has partnered with the child sexual abuse prevention organization Stop It Now! to provide its members with resources to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse and to foster an environment in which that abuse is reported. Since...
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) lacked institutional control when it allowed 30 ineligible student-athletes in 12 sports to practice or compete during four academic years, according to findings by the NCAA Division III...
A public reprimand and certain penalties have been issued for University of New Mexico men’s soccer student-athletes Victor Rodriguez and James Rogers for misconduct during the 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship. The NCAA...
By Brian Burnsed NCAA.org They’re accustomed to competing, not working in harmony. Hundreds of times, on fields and courts at Kansas’ three Division I schools – Kansas, Kansas State and Wichita State – helmets and bodies have crashed...
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick When Jean Boyd saw the higher academic expectations for student-athletes who want to play Division I sports adopted last fall by the Division I Board of Directors, his first thought was of the kids who would be...
Due to ties with an agent, nonscholastic teams affiliated with three team administrators may not participate in NCAA-certified summer basketball events following a decision today by the NCAA. However, the individual prospective student-...
The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee has selected Ron Wellman, director of athletics at Wake Forest University, as chair of the committee for the 2013-14 season. The committee’s decision was made Friday, June 29, during its...
By Brian Hendrickson The NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee asked the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports at its June meeting for its support and collaboration as the rules committee examines the possibility of...
Pepperdine University failed to monitor its athletics program, according to findings by the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions. This case involved violations in five sports, including incorrect eligibility certifications of transfer...
The NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee has upheld a Boise State University football spring practice penalty and sent the reduction in football scholarships penalty back to the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions for...
